“Collision” symbolises the mutual influence and interweaving of cultures.
Showcase 1 at 1:00PM:
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is a solo choreographic performance by Joseph Lee that interlaces storytelling, rope skipping and erotic dance. It attempts to unpack the complex relationships between the image of male body, gay culture and affective economy.
Lee uses his body to transform a daily fitness routine into a performative ritual, reliving his experience as a gay man in Asia in pursuit of the mainstream ideal figure in the community. The works reveals how fitness and performing arts industries make use of this image to sexualise, glorify and discipline the male body and its expression.
The performance, nevertheless, also questions how Lee, as a performance-maker, might queer the gaze of desire through constant shapeshifting from one image to another — practicing a mode of being that is fluid, uncertain and unnamed.
Come closer, go deeper!
Through bodily postures, Come closer, go deeper! explores the female bodily experience and the gaze. The work invites audiences to experience pain, pleasure, tension and ease through the flow and transformation of movement, while participating in a bodily journey propelled by the gaze. Presented as a performative workshop, it guides audiences to reanimate their awareness and imagination of the body through stretching and movement exercises. This interactive experience interweaves participation and observation, creating a dynamic akin to the power play of the gaze within an intimate performance setting — where self-reflection intertwines with the observation of others. The work presented at the Queer East Festival in London in 2026, continuing its exploration of embodied intimacy and collective presence across cultural contexts.
Showcase 2 at 2:30 PM:
Click
“In the discourse between virtual and live, Click proposes another possibility for performance: the virtual plane appears in the live space and the screen becomes the dancer appearing ‘vividly’ in front of the audience, participating in the performance.” — Human Wu, dance journal/hk
In a room, a dancer and a computer. In a single click, to possess or lose that place. My skeleton and organs perhaps dance there, perhaps it is merely an accident. Delete, repeat, come back… No matter what choices are made, what disappears will inevitably be filled, or left as blank space.
In a fingertip lies the imagination and connection of movement, of body, of choreography, of performativity. When the breath and touch that performance emphasizes are no longer part of the everyday, Beyond the body itself, Click presents another possibility for performance through another “body” in constant dialogue with it.
The work premiered as a commissioned programme for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
Stay with the spin
Stay with the spin emerges from a series of inquiries into the evolving status of pole dance and revolving bodies, from strip club invention to global fitness reinvention. What can be seen when the spectacle of the spin is slowed down? Whose voices and bodies still remain? To stay with the spin is a choice to remain in relation to those who came before me, to navigate the tension between inheritance and change, and to acknowledge the weight of the histories on which the form continues to spin.
